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JLEN buys Peacehill anaerobic digestion plant

JLEN buys Peacehill anaerobic digestion plant – JLEN has announced an investment in the Peacehill Farm anaerobic digestion (AD) plant for an aggregate amount of £11m. Unusually, the investment takes the form of the provision of a debt facility and an investment to gain a minority equity stake in JLEAG AD Limited, the company which holds, through its wholly owned subsidiary Peacehill Gas Limited, the rights and operational assets at the Peacehill Farm AD plant.

The Peacehill Farm AD plant, located in Wormit, Fife, Scotland, was commissioned in December 2015 . The plant has a thermal capacity of about 5MW(th) and predominantly produces biomethane exported to the national gas grid. In addition, the plant also has a 0.25MW(e) CHP engine on site. The Peacehill Farm AD plant is accredited under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) schemes, as are JLEN’s existing AD investments.

The Peacehill Farm AD plant is JLEN’s eighth investment in the agricultural AD sector. This investment increases the total capacity of renewable energy assets in the JLEN investment portfolio to 302.9MW.

The transaction was funded by a draw-down under the company’s revolving credit facility.

JLEN is carving out a successful niche in the AD sector where some other investors have struggled. The owners of Peacehill Farm, TD Forster & Son, have a large poultry business. They wanted a way to turn the associated manure into biogas and the manure and some vegetal matter make up the feedstock for the plant.

 

2 thoughts on “JLEN buys Peacehill anaerobic digestion plant”

  1. Could you give me a contact at the peacehill plant in Wormit Scotland please? We would like to have a representative come to talk to us at our 2 churches about their work as partof our Climate Change/ Renewable energy interest

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